Gerry Paying on the Nail Bristol, England, was once a great financial centre and evidence of this is still in place today. The phrase ‘to pay on the nail’ is thought to have originated there because deals were struck on brass ‘nails’. There are four Nails in Bristol, placed on
Taylor Sander kingsseeds.co.nz Howdy! My name is Taylor and I originally hail from Golden, Colorado, in the USA, but have spent the last 11 years in the Northeast of the country, seven of those being in NYC. I arrived in New Zealand last November when Covid wasn’t
H. Colleen Sinclair Mississippi State University The holiday season is already a booming time for online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic only increases the likelihood that when people shop this holiday season, they will choose online shopping over brick-and-mortar stores. However, this also means there is likely to
Gerry The Real McCoy Kid McCoy was born as Norman Selby in Indiana in 1867 (he later took the name Charles McCoy). By the end of the 19th Century, Kid McCoy was one of the most renowned boxers in the world. Just five foot eleven and one hundred and sixty
Karen Rodham Staffordshire University Two years ago, I came into work on December 1 to find a bag on my desk labelled “Karen’s Christmas Intervention”. It contained many Christmas themed gifts and challenges – such as watching a Christmas DVD and going to a carol service. These were all designed
Adrian R. Camilleri University of Technology Sydney Christmas is a time of celebration, relaxation and gift giving. But choosing gifts can also make it a time of stress and anxiety. The wrong gift can actually do more harm than good. Here is some advice, based on decades of research, on
Arthur Why is it that people once in the public spotlight such as politicians cannot quietly retire from it without feeling the obsessive need to continually meddle in people’s lives? It is a similar situation with celebrities and the wealthy too. All these people seem to suffer from a
righttolife.org.uk Abortion doctors in Ireland have described late-term abortion as “‘brutal’, ‘awful’ and ‘emotionally difficult’, referring to it as ‘stabbing the baby in the heart’, and held themselves responsible for the death of the baby”. A recent study based on interviews with ten doctors who perform abortions
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. And the Emmy
Abas Mirzaei Macquarie University The makers of Coon cheese will no doubt have paid close attention to the publicity surrounding Nestle’s rebadging of its Red Skins and Chicos confectionary brands. While the change of Chicos to Cheekies was uncontroversial, the change of Red Skins to Red Ripper – a name
Kieran Madden maxim.org.nz Prime Minister Ardern is sitting on a shiny mountain of political capital that would, as one editorial pointed out, make Disney’s Scrooge McDuck jealous. The problem for Ardern and her Government is that those arguing for a big spend to tackle child poverty are
covidplanb.co.nz As lead vaccines announce good results and intentions to register for fast-tracked safety authorisation in EU and the US, immunologist Byram Bridle, reminds us of questions that they will need to answer: Dr. Byram Bridle, PhD, Associate Professor of Viral Immunology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In these “modern times”, there is hell to pay if someone puts on black face, wears an American Indian headdress, adorns themselves with facial tattoos (if not of indigenous origin), or plays the part of someone who is not of the same ethnicity in a movie. But if you dress
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
Zachary Yost mises.org Zachary Yost is a Mises U alum and freelance writer. While GMU economist Tyler Cowen may have dismissed the idea of more pandemic lockdowns as being “a straw man” and saying that the extreme measures that started in March of this year “are now behind us,
